Quotes from Adele Parks

hold opinions because I believe them, not to be cool, controversial or compliant.

Do we still live in a world where being polite keeps order or does it leave you vulnerable?

We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.

Tou said that

the importance of keeping your child close;

shrug. I don't feel that. I'd settle for being ignored, left alone, unjudged. Unharried. I just want to live my life. I don't need anyone to understand it. 'Do you think? It strikes me as the ultimate in self-absorption, hoping for understanding from others to give meaning to your life. Get over yourself, I say.

What you need and what you want being perfectly aligned is a rare and wonderful thing.

He knows a place. I like that. It's refreshing to meet a man who has ideas about what we should do and where we should go.

But I do remember how I felt when he said I was pretty. I was disappointed. I felt my lack. I wanted to be beautiful. Beautiful suggests gravitas, importance. Pretty is lightweight and suggests 'somewhat'. I needed him to think of me as beautiful. I felt challenged, as though he had thrown down a gauntlet.

We speak with hideous honesty. A pair of women who have been the very best to one another and now the worst.

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.